AERIAL NAVIGATION

Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 25

AERIAL NAVIGATION

.*. . PROJECTED MEETING IN ENGLAND LONDON, August 31. liatham goes to Berlin for £8750, and Bleriot to Vienna for £10,000. The. committee of the Rheims carnival has £12.000 in hand as a result of aviation week. It has been decided to repeat the fixture next year. PARIS, August 31. Eight aviators at Rheims have offered t< attend a projected aviation meeting a1 Blackpool in October. M. Bleriot and M. Latham will com pete at Wembley (Middlesex) in October. September 3. The Zeppelin airship, after an uninterrupted flight lasting 22£ hours, has arrived at Friedrichehafen. ' MELBOURNE, September 2. The, Minister of Defence" (Mr Cook) has approved the regulations for -a prize of £5000 for the best flying machine suitable for military purposes. The inventor must have been a- resident of Australia for at least twe years, and. either an Australian^born or naturalised British subject. The machine must not be supported by any gas lighter than air, and must as far as possible be constructed in Australia by Australians, be capable of poising and returning to its starting-place, travelling at not less than 20 miles an hour, and in the test must carry at least two passengers. .The total loading above the complete weight of the machine must be not kss than 3501b, and the machine must possess sufficient novelty to warrant the granting of letters patent. The successful machine, if satisfactory for military purposes, is to be placed at the disposal of the Commonwealth Government for a period of three months, at a price to be fixed by arbitration.